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SolidWorks Fundamentals
Moving from 2D to 3D
Assemblies
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Design Checker
Design Studies in SolidWorks
Detailing and Drawings
Detailing Overview
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Adding Symbol Text to BOM or Table Cells
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Equations in Tables
Drafting Standards
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Drawings
Drawings Overview
Getting Started in Drawings
Types of Drawing Documents
Standard Drawing Views
Derived Drawing Views
Drawing View Alignment and Display
View Alignment and Display Overview
Manipulating Views
Drawing View Properties
Drawing View Update
Updating Views
Moving Drawings
Moving Views
Aligning Views
Overriding Alignments
First Angle and Third Angle Projection
3D Drawing View Mode
View Orientation
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Displaying
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Dimensions in Drawings
DFMXpress
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Import/Export
Mold Design
Motion Studies
Parts and Features
PhotoView 360
PhotoWorks
Routing
Sheet Metal
Simulation
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Sketching
Sustainability Products
SolidWorks Utilities
Tolerancing
Toolbox
Weldments
Workgroup PDM
Troubleshooting
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Drawing View Properties

The Drawing View Properties dialog box provides information about the drawing view and its associated model.

To view and edit the Drawing View Properties:

  1. Right-click in a drawing view and select Properties.

    - or -

    From a drawing view PropertyManager, click More Properties.

  2. Edit properties and click OK.

  3. Click Update View (Drawing toolbar) or Rebuild (Standard toolbar).

Properties

View information. (Read-only.)

Model information. (Read-only.) Model information is not available for Detached views.

Configuration information.

  • Select one:

    • Use model’s "in-use" or last saved configuration. Uses the active configuration of the open part or the saved configuration of the closed part.

    • Use named configuration. Uses a configuration that you previously created. For parent views (such as named and standard 3 views), select Use named configuration and optionally one of the Display States within that configuration.

  • Show in exploded state. (Only for assemblies with an exploded view defined.)

Display State. (For assemblies only.)

For some child views (such as detail and section views) you select display states only within the selected configuration, and therefore the Configuration information is unavailable. Other child views, such as projected and auxiliary views, allow full access to Configuration information.

To access only the list of display states for a parent or child view, select the view and use the Display State settings in the PropertyManager.

Balloons

Link balloon text to specified table. Assigns balloon numbers according to the selected BOM item numbers or weldment cut list item numbers. If you attach a balloon to a component that is not in the BOM configuration, the balloon number appears with an asterisk (*).

Show envelope (For assemblies only.) Displays assembly envelope components in the drawing view.

Align breaks with parent. If the view is a Broken View that was created from another broken view, select this check box to align the break gaps in the two views.

Display sheet metal bend notes.



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